Cash-carrier



(No Model.)

T. F. McGANN.

CASH CARRIER.

No. 283,007. Pat ted Aug.14,-1883.

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UNITED STATES PATE T ()FFICE.

THOMAS F. MCGANN, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

CASH-CARRIER.

SPEGIFICATIQN forming part of Letters'Patent No. 283,007, dated August 14, 1883.

Application filed June 28, 1883. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, THOMAS F. MCGANN,

of Boston, in the countyof Suffolk and State of Massachusetts, have invented certain Improvements in Cash-Carriers, of which the following is a specification;

This inventionrelates to that class of cashcarriers for stores in which each carrier comprises a carriage adapted to run on an elevated track such as a wire stretched between two points of support-and a receptacle suspended from said carriage by flexible cords woundon a spring-roller secured to the carriage and adapted to be drawn downwardly from the carriage by an attendant to insert or remove articles, and to be automatically raised by the I spring-roller to bring the receptacle up to the carriage, the latter then acting as,a cover for the receptacle.

My invention has for its object to provide an improved arrangement of parts in a carrier of this class whereby economy of space iseffected and a neat device is produced.

a To this end my invention consists in the improvements which I will now proceed to describe and claim. a

Of the accompanying drawings, forming a part of thisspecification, Figurel represents a side elevation of a cash-carrier embodying my invention. Fig. 2 represents a vertical section of the same. Fig. 3 represents a horizontal section on line as :r, Fig 2, looking up wardly.

The same letters of reference indicate the same parts in all the figures.

Inathe drawings, a represents the carriage, eomposed of a circular platform or casing hav- 111g standards 12 b and wheels 0 0, adapted to run on a wiretrack, d.

6 represents the receptacle, which is composed of a circular cup suspended from the carriage a, in such a manner that it can be raised and lowered independently. I

f represents a horizontal roller journaled on a vertical stud, f, affixed rigidly to the carriage a. \Vithin the roller f is a coiled spring, b 9, attached at its outer end to the roller and a at its inner end to the stud f.

h 72 represent guide-pulleys journaled in brackets attached to the carriage, and arranged to guide two cords, '5 1 in opposite directions to the periphery of the roller f, as shown in Fig. 3. The cords i i are secured to the receptacle e by means of suitable hooks or loops attached to the inner surface of the receptacle and extend over the guide-pulley, as shown,

to the periphery of the spring-roller f, onwhich the latter serving as a cover for the receptacle.

WVhen access to the receptacle is desired, the operator grasps aring or handle, j, at the bottom of the receptacle, or a cord depending therefrom, and pulls the receptacle downwardly away from the carriage, the cords unwinding, and in so doing rotating the roller in such direction as to compress the spring. WVhen the receptacle is released, the spring lifts it to its former position.

I am aware thatI am not the first to combine a carriage, a receptacle suspendedthere from by flexible cords, and a spring-roller adapted to wind up said cords, and raise the receptacle automatically to the carriage;hence I do not claim such combination, broadly. The novelty of my invention lies in the horizontally-arranged roller, the suspending-cords wound thereon in opposite directionsfand the guide-rollers over which the cords pass. Here tofore the spring-roller has been journaled on a horizontal axis, like a spring curtai11--roller, and more vertical space is required for it and the cords wound thereon than for the horizontallyarranged roller hence 'my improvement enables the carrier to be made in much more compact and simple form than before.

I do not limit myself to the employment of the rollers h h, it being evident that fixed eyes or non-rotating guides may be used instead, and will constitute equivalent of said rollers.

The cords 11 5 may be in reality a singlepiece of catgut or other suitable material attached at its end to the spring-roller f and extending across the receptacle 6, as shown in Fig. 2. I

' of a horizontal spring-roller, f, journaled in the carriage, cord-guides h 72, supported by the A carriage, and cords i 1', secured to the receptacle, passing over said guides, wound in opposite directions on said roller, and secured to the periphery of the latter, as set forth.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification, in the presence of two sub- 20 scribing witnesses, this 23d day of June, 1883.

THOMAS F. McGANN.

Witnesses:

JosEPH CUTLER, A. L. WHITE. 

